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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ptrace in unix tracing non-child processes
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Date: 11 Apr 88 13:20:01 GMT
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In-reply-to: chris@mimsy.UUCP's message of 9 Apr 88 17:30:56 GMT


chris@mimsy.UUCP writes:
   Better: throw out ptrace entirely and adopt the V8/V9 `/proc' approach.

Yea, verily, and amen.

   ptrace is ugly and slow; /proc is moderatly odd (ioctls for process
   control!?) and much less so.

True, but it completes the "everything is a file" paradigm.